SPEIDI: WE FAKED CBB

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag say they faked their way through Big Brother

They brought us in to be Speidi to stir it up.

Spencer Pratt

The pair claimed they were reality TV experts who loved playing “cartoon character villains” and their outrageous antics were all an act.

Spencer, 29, even joked that he had a special talent for being an a***hole”.

The married American couple, dubbed Speidi, were thrilled to have made last night’s Channel 5 final despite turning them­selves into the most loathed housemates in the show’s history.

From day one they wound up the others by causing rows, deliberately failing tasks and reducing many to tears.

All their fellow housemates wanted them out. But viewers loved to hate them and kept saving them from eviction.

Now Speidi have admitted everything they did was an act to make great TV. The pair, who found fame on reality show The Hills, claimed this was what they did best and it was their “job”.

When they appeared on the US version of I’m A Celebrity in 2009, they did the same, staging walkouts, sparking arguments and turning everyone against them. Now they have come clean about their time on Celebrity Big Brother.

Spencer broke down and sobbed: “They brought us in to be Speidi to stir it up.

“I feel like a cartoon character. My talent, for some odd reason, is being an a***hole.

“I can’t come all the way from America and be the good guy when that’s not what they cast me for. I had to be the bad guy.

“Since I was 20 years old I’ve been playing a character.

“I thought it was better to drop out of college and become a reality star.

“I’m just doing what they brought me from America to provide but it was hard to be the bad guy this season.

“It’s usually a lot easier on other shows and I’d say I’ve made acquaintances rather than friends in here.”

His wife Heidi, 26, who was shocked seeing her husband in tears, said they had had a tough time.

Despite dishing out insults and causing rows with others, they did not like it when it was dished back and got upset being on the receiving end of jibes about their marriage and sexual relationship.

She added: “I really loved everybody but when people started saying things about our marriage it was tough.

“But this was just a job for us. We never did this for ‘the experience’. Despite everything I want you to know there’s a place for each of you in my heart.”

The couple are poised to have talks to launch their own reality series in the UK. But Speidi’s confession on the final night left two housemates who had been at war with them unimpressed.

Rylan Clark, 24, said: “Brilliant bit of acting. Oscar?”

And Razor Ruddock, 44, who wanted to punch Spencer, added: “He calls us acquaintances and now cries over us.”